different between sect vs presectarian

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English

Etymology

From Middle English secte, from Old French secte (“a sect in philosophy or religion”), from Late Latin secta (“a sect in philosophy or religion, a school, party, faction, class, gild, band, particularly a heretical doctrine or sect, etc.”), possibly, from Latin sequi (“to follow”). Alternatively linked to sectus (“cut off, divided”), past participle of sec?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?kt/
• Rhymes: -?kt

Noun

sect (plural sects)

1. An offshoot of a larger religion; a group sharing particular (often unorthodox) political and/or religious beliefs.

   A religious sect.

2. A group following a specific ideal or a leader.
3. (obsolete) A cutting; a scion.

Hypernyms

• religion

Hyponyms

• denomination

Related terms

• sectarian
• sectish

Translations

See also

• cult

Further reading

• sect in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• sect in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• sect at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• 'tecs, CEST, CTEs, ECTS, ETCS, Stec, TCEs, TECs, cest

Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [s?t?st]

Verb

sect

1. supine of sec

Middle English

Noun

sect

1. Alternative form of secte

English

Alternative forms

• pre-sectarian

Etymology

pre- +? sectarian

Adjective

presectarian (comparative more presectarian, superlative most presectarian)

1. Prior to sects; prior to sectarianism.
   • 1966, Martin R. P. McGuire, "Louis-Sebastien le Nain de Tillemont," The Catholic Historical Review, Vol. 52, No. 2, Jul., 1966, (pp. 186-200), pg. 190:

     He makes the important observation that Tillemont embodied the presectarian and pre-Jansenist traditions of Port-Royal (pp. 278-279).

   • 1990, Seamus Deane, "Introduction," in Nationalism, Colonialism, and Literature, University of Minnesota Press, ?ISBN, pg. 9:

     In Ireland, just at this time undergoing its literary revival, the Edenic moment was displaced back into the pre-Christian (and therefore presectarian) past and the model figures that emerged as types of Irish identity were, of necessity, legendary—like Cuchalain—and, by nature, susceptible to almost any reformulation.

   • 2007, Bilhah Nitzan, "Traditional and Atypical Motifs in Penitential Prayers from Qumran," Seeking the Favor of God: The Development of Penitential Prayer in Second Temple Judaism, vol. 2, Ed. Mark J Boda, Daniel K Falk, and Rodney Alan Werline, Society of Biblical Literature, ?ISBN, pg. 208:

     Nevertheless, the suggestion of a presectarian origin for some of the prayers dealt with in this essay, either close to the ideology and reality of the Qumran community or reflecting a slightly dualistic atmosphere, is a vague solution.